There was a huge meet up in the city today so I decided to go. Surely was a cringe fest but oh well. I managed to get all three Gigantamax Pokemon, but it sure was tough. We needed at least 30 people every time and it required strategies if it wasn't 40 people. You also won't beat it if the majority is just people leeching with shitty Wooloo or Grookey.
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Can only read part of this article because of tge paywall, but it basically just reports what we already assumed: Niantic trying to force players back outside to harvest their sweet sweet location data. But wait! It's not (just) to sell to advertisers, they want to train a large "geospatial" model (a la large language models) on it. Which, of course they do, you can't be sitting on all that data in the year 2024 and not add a few tons of carbon to the atmosphere to run it through the AI machine.
https://www.404media.co/pokemon-go-players-have-unwittingly-trained-ai-to-navigate-the-world/
But we can now join remote raids with friends through the friends list without an invite, so I guess it balances out </s>
https://www.404media.co/pokemon-go-players-have-unwittingly-trained-ai-to-navigate-the-world/
But we can now join remote raids with friends through the friends list without an invite, so I guess it balances out </s>
I'm liking the latest new change which enables to join a raid that a friend is currently in the lobby for without requiring an invite. Too bad with this current event with origin palkia/dialga I have not yet gotten a single shiny, hundo nor one with signature moves, and now I am out of remote raid passes as I refuse to pay 195/525 coins for them even to this date but wait until there's a bargain sale for them permitting I have enough coins saved from defending gyms, etc...
Did the Wild Area event this weekend for a couple of hours both days, without a ticket - pretty lame, tbh, but I appreciated finally being able to do some Gigantamax raids since there were a lot of people present. It seemed dumb to do a Dynamax Toxtricity or a regular raid if I could get the Gigantamax versions. The Mighty Pokemon were more of a bonus than an attraction - none of the species were ones I was particularly desperate to get, so I largely wasn't fussed about getting them unless someone reported seeing a hundo on a scanner app. Actually managed to snag a surprising amount of them in Ultra Balls, and even one Electivire in a Great Ball.
Did catch a Galarian Moltres in a Safari Ball, though, so that's pretty cool. Collector's item.
Did catch a Galarian Moltres in a Safari Ball, though, so that's pretty cool. Collector's item.
I also did the wild event without a ticket and was disappointed with how unsuccessful I was with the Safari ball as a failed catch was enough to prevent finishing the task so that was a bummer. Among the few highlights were as follows:
- ability to evolve the likes of Venusaur, Pidgeot, Poliwrath, Gyarados & Feraligatr without an elite TM
- got an Origin Dialga with 15/14/14 and Roar of Time
- got a 0/15/15 Mareanne (sp?) which is top rank for GBL great league
With the fusion Necrosma returning to raids in several weeks I'll be saving any remote raid passes for those as I am still lacking the ability to fuse with my lone hundo.
- ability to evolve the likes of Venusaur, Pidgeot, Poliwrath, Gyarados & Feraligatr without an elite TM
- got an Origin Dialga with 15/14/14 and Roar of Time
- got a 0/15/15 Mareanne (sp?) which is top rank for GBL great league
With the fusion Necrosma returning to raids in several weeks I'll be saving any remote raid passes for those as I am still lacking the ability to fuse with my lone hundo.
to the surprise of probably no one, they did in fact just confirm that the unova tour shiny mythic is meloetta
Our plans for going to London for the EUIC are still active as we're seeking plane tickets first so we'll most likely be there. I hope we can meet if all works out as planning.
You & I are lucky, yes? (GoateeVGC/Greentyphlosion)
Happy to meet up and do a trade if I'm free and if you have time/availability.
Quentin & I have been going back & forth in the requests thread and can't get a straight answer because sources either make assumptions or lead to dead links: does anyone here have any of the cap pikachu who they would be willing to test if they can transfer to Home? Even better if one is shiny or a female.
& I mean commit to the transfer, not just "shows up but errors on transfer" like the G-Maxes do.
& I mean commit to the transfer, not just "shows up but errors on transfer" like the G-Maxes do.
Thank you!
If it's not too much trouble, could you provide an image? Just so there's a nice, definitive answer to go with this.
Bah! Thanks for testing that, looks like I'm officially out of luck.